Soffar v. Texas
493 U.S. 900
SCOTUS
1989
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Lead Opinion

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

Sup. Ct. Ind.;

Sup. Ct. Ala.;

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

Sup. Ct. Mo.;

Ct. Crim. App. Ala.;

C. A. 11th Cir.;

Sup. Ct. Mo.;

C. A. 5th Cir.; and

Ct. Crim. App. Ala. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 87-7191, 742 S. W. 2d 371; No. 88-7465, 535 N. E. 2d 507; No. 89-219, 545 So. 2d 122; No. 89-5083, 773 S. W. 2d 525; No. 89-5110, 766 S. W. 2d 640; No. 89-5193, 545 So. 2d 214; No. 89-5245, 875 F. 2d 1520; No. 89-5256, 769 S. W. 2d 427; No. 89-5442, 873 F. 2d 757; No. 89-5496, 548 So. 2d 1062.





Dissenting Opinion

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

dissenting.

Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153, 227, 231 (1976), we would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.